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the following minimum requirements: (a) they shall have an enrollment
of not less than thirty bona fide high school pupils, and an average daily
attendance of not less than twenty-five pupils; (b) they shall employ not
less than two full-time academic teachers for the high school work; (c)
they shall provide a four years' course of instruction of not less than one
hundred and eighty actual school days in each year, the same to conform
to the standards required by the State Board of Education. High schools
of the second group shall fulfill the following minimum requirements: (a)
they shall have an enrollment of not less than fifteen bona fide high school
pupils, and an average daily attendance of at least twelve pupils; (b) they
shall employ one full-time teacher of the academic branches; (c) they shall
provide a two years' course of instruction of not less than one hundred and
eighty actual school days in each year, the same to conform to the standard
required by the State Board of Education.
No promotion of pupils from grade to grade in any approved high school
shall be made without the approval of the county superintendent of schools;
nor shall any pupils be graduated from an approved high school without the
approval of the State Superintendent of Schools. Regulations regarding
the size and arrangement of the building, and its fitness for high school
work, the amount and character of equipment and supplies, and the neces-
sary library and laboratories, shall be made by the State Board of Educa-
tion; and State aid shall not be allowed on account of the employment of
any teacher unless the department to, which such teacher is assigned is
adequately equipped and the quality of instruction is satisfactory.
No person shall be employed in any approved high school as principal
or assistant teacher who does not hold the appropriate certificate as pro-
vided for in Chapter 8, Section 86, of this Article.
Nothing in this section shall prevent the organization of junior high
schools comprising the higher elementary grades and one or two of the high
school grades; and such schools when organized according to regulations
of the State Board of Education, and satisfactorily administered, may re-
ceive State aid on the basis of the amount of high school instruction given.
See notes to secs. 93 and 186.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 196. 1912, sec. 127. 1908, ch. 635, sec. 122B. 1910, ch. 386,
sec. 122 (p. 229). 1916, ch. 506, sec. 127. 1920, ch. 118,
sec. 127. 1929, ch. 519.
188. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Schools, or
an assistant designated by him, to make an annual inspection of all high
schools receiving State aid, and also such other schools as make applica-
tion, through their respective county superintendents, to receive said State
aid. The State Superintendent of Schools shall, on or before the last day
of February of each year, prepare a list of high schools, designating the
group to which each belongs, the amount of said State aid to which each is
entitled, and to whom the same shall be paid. The preparation of this list
shall be based on information obtained through inspection, supervision,
written reports of the principal or county superintendent, or other reliable
sources. He shall certify this list to the Comptroller of the Treasury, on
or before the last day of February of each year, and the Comptroller of
the Treasury shall issue his warrant upon the Treasury of the State in
equal quarterly installments in each and every year at the time when the
general State school fund is now, or may hereafter be, distributed, payable
to the orders of the treasurers of the respective county boards of education,
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